Man charged in Glendale Heights bank robbery

Deanese Williams-HarrisTribune reporter

A Cicero man was charged with bank robbery in connection a hold-up in late July at a TCF Bank branch in suburban Glendale Heights.

Glenn A. Rodgers, 43, of the 6000 block of West Pershing Road was charged Wednesday in connection with a robbery that occurred July 27 at a TCF Bank located at 2164 Bloomingdale Rd. in Glendale Heights, the FBI said today in a news release.

On July 27, about 1 p.m. , a man entered the bank wearing a bright orange Chicago Bears cap and holding a Jewel-Osco sales paper. He approached a teller and handed the teller the sales paper which had a note demanding money on top of it, according to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. Northern District Court.

The teller told authorities the note directed them to, “Give me all your money in your top drawer. I have a gun. Do not give me a dye pack,” the complaint said. The robber took $1,172 and the note and left the bank.

The TCF Bank branch and the Jewel Osco store in which the bank is located had video surveillance footage of the robber. The footage revealed the man entered the store without the Bears cap, picked up a shopping cart and collected items in the store before the robbery, the complaint said.

After the robbery, the man was seen running through the a parking lot wearing the orange cap. Later, police found the cap on the ground next to some bushes in the same area where the robber was seen running on the video, according to the complaint.

The FBI sent out a bank robbery alert to media outlets and a tipster said they had known the robber for about 17 years and identified him as Rodgers.

The FBI compared Rodgers driver’s license to the video surveillance photos and determined it was the same person who robbed the TCF Bank. He was then identified by the teller in a photo line-up, the complaint said.